Label Type
Cultural/Historical ContextLabel
Flag Raising at the Wawona Hotel
June 2014
In 2016, the National Park Service changed several historic names associated with features of the park — The Ahwahnee Hotel became The Majestic Yosemite Hotel, the Wawona Hotel became Big Trees Lodge, and Curry Village became Half Dome Village. The decision to change the names was a strategic move in a complicated legal feud with the Park’s former concessionaire, which exposed the big business side of the nation’s most popular park. The sides have recently settled the lawsuit and the historic names have been restored, but most Yosemite people went right on calling them what they had always called them anyway, settled or not.